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and be grateful

Happy Thanksgiving to all you US of A-ers, and happy Thursday to the rest of you. Be joyful, and be thankful, and be safe.

Like most people with a smartphone these days, I’ve been mucking around with mobile photography — specifically with the Android app RetroCamera (because unlike Vignette, it was free). It’s enjoyable enough; I have to think about shooting with my cell phone differently than with my camera, but what it mostly makes me crave is film….

google, i’m mad at you.

I have a Samsung Intercept, a swanky Android phone, that aside from its predilection for freezing when I try to answer phone calls — whatever, I hate talking on the phone, I’d rather text; I just call people back — I almost completely adore. I had reached a point in my photography where I couldn’t…